Russian scientists claim to have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to ...

A prototype electric plasma rocket engine capable of significantly increasing thrust and efficiency has been unveiled by ...

NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.

But for missions farther from the sun, where the sunlight is fainter, nuclear ... place to protect a spacecraft from these backscattered electrons, their behavior in an ion-engine plume must ...

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

Rosatom scientists have developed a laboratory prototype for a plasma electro-reactive rocket engine based on a magnetic ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical ... gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver.

spacecraft using existing chemical rocket engines will take a minimum of six to seven months to reach Mars. Going faster would require a new propulsion method. The best candidate is the Nuclear ...

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...